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This doesn't make any sense. Russia made it perfectly clear that as long as they have the power to subjugate Ukraine, that's exactly what they'll do. Negotiations will only happen if Russia is on the back heel, it they have to acknowledge that further conquests are unlikely and that losing captured territory is a real possibility.
This is directly contrary to reality. Russia tried to get Ukraine to implement Minsk 1 and 2 for almost a decade, and Russia was perfectly willing to negotiate a peace back in May.
https://multipolarista.com/2022/09/03/west-peace-proposal-ukraine-russia/Quote
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According to multiple former senior U.S. officials we spoke with, in April 2022, Russian and Ukrainian negotiators appeared to have tentatively agreed on the outlines of a negotiated interim settlement: Russia would withdraw to its position on February 23, when it controlled part of the Donbas region and all of Crimea, and in exchange, Ukraine would promise not to seek NATO membership and instead receive security guarantees from a number of countries. But as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated in a July interview with his country’s state media, this compromise is no longer an option.
These terms had apparently been ironed out in face-to-face peace talks in Istanbul, Turkey on March 29.
Hill did not reveal what killed the peace process, but the Ukrainska Pravda report from May made it clear that it was Western pressure on Ukraine that sabotaged the negotiated settlement.
As US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin stated publicly on April 25, Washington’s goal was to use the proxy war in Ukraine to “weaken” Russia.
So clearly Russia isn't opposed to negotiation in principle. It's just that they've come to the conclusion it's not going to happen given Ukraine's status as a puppet.
It's NATO that opposes any diplomacy.
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Russia isn't going for a full mobilization because Putin is a coward who fears that this might be unpopular and undermine his grip on power. And reports about them trying to avoid civilian casualties are complete and utter bullshit, considering the countless Russian attacks on purely civilian targets.
It's actually because he doesn't need to. Russia is able to slowly fight this war (which they argue, who knows, suits their objectives since it leads to a more thorough destruction of Ukraine's army), and is able to constantly rotate troops off the front line for R&R.
It's not clear to me that a full mobilization would even accomplish much, since logistics would probably quickly become a constraining factor. No use having more people on the front if it doesn't result in more artillery being fired.
Quote (Lvivz @ Sep 5 2022 05:53am)
Is this the decisive victory?
Why do you even post here? Your only trading posts are you trolling with bugged ammies and other such nonsense, you should have been banned in your first days in this website. You're just a racist troll who alternates between jerking off to hentai and jerking off to war gore on Telegram.
This post was edited by kusotarre1 on Sep 5 2022 01:33pm